Short version is that I expected nerd skills to be required but I was surprised that shit just worked, even my network printer. I even preferred the graphical tools to configure the system and install software instead of the command line. Desktop on Linux has come a really long way.
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joined 1 year ago
I have the opposite experience. Last time I tried Linux for daily desktop use was ten years ago and it was so fickle and cumbersome that I went back to Windows and terminals and x-server on virtual machines for my dev needs. A few weeks ago I got a new convertible laptop, hated Windows 11 with passion enough to do the plunge again, prepared to be cursing that shit ain't up to shit. But... It just worked. Hardware support out of the box. Some quirks obviously but nothing deal breaking. I'm used to containerization on servers and I'll be damned but Flatpaks are effing awesome. Even Windows games run perfectly. It. Just. Works. I'm almost expecting the entire thing to literally blow up in my face with shards of hope and OLED panel because, you know, Linux desktop experiences of the past. Fingers crossed. Maybe this is the future after all.
Edit: Fedora KDE on a HP Envy x360 15"
Edit 2: Forgot to mention that I tried PopOS first that did not just work out of the box. Or well it seemed to at first but then it got complicated. Fedora was my saviour.
Good thing it wasn't in Belgium.
Me: This joke is old.
The joke: UR old.
Gruntle - the revival of grunge with a motivational spin.
Funny how your post history says you're Indian and Israeli and now from a Islamist country and probably even more for someone bothered to read any further.
One might suspect you're just a big stinky sack of lies and hatred. Days and weeks and months and years spent on lies and hatred online.
That is one sad life, my dude. 🖤
The literal opposite of what people¹ want then. Give me back the €5 no ads, no yt music and no off app viewing and I will consider enabling the app and remove the YouTube adblockers in my browser.
¹ People as in me. I am at least one people.
Now explain brothel.
That's why they started with building a following of cultists that will be the useful idiots to take the blow for free.
My brain insists on telling me so several times a day so nowadays I just roll with it.
American leftists need to adopt their communication strategy. It doesn't work to have educated people lecture the anti intellectuals. They don't want to hear it and they'll have a knee jerk reaction against it. Study, learn and use their own preferred methods instead. Stickers, simple slogans, rants, fucking flags on oversized wankmobiles if you've got one. Whenever there is a direct consequence of the Trump administration, shout it immediately from the rooftops until people get it. Only talking about it years later at the next election will do nothing because it is already pushed away by the propaganda feed. Use their method of communication but keep it factual and don't stoop down to their hatred and lies. It's not about taunting, it's about informing the uninformed and leading them out of the bubble.
Price hikes? Thanks MAGA. Deportations of integrated citizens? Thanks MAGA. No more social security? Thanks MAGA. Leopards chewing on your face? WELL FUCKING THANKS FOR VOTING FOR THE LEOPARDS EATING PEOPLE'S FACES PARTY!
Wait what Mac?